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Biodiversity Communing With Nature Less And Less From backyard gardening to mountain climbing, outdoor activities are on the wane as people around the world spend more leisure time online or in front of the tube, according to findings published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Novel Approach to Ecosystem Management Traditional ecosystems in which communities of plants and animals have co-evolved and are interdependent are increasingly rare, due to human-induced ecosystem changes. These researchers suggest that conservation efforts should focus less on restoring ecosystems to their original state and more on sustaining new, healthy ecosystems that are resilient to further environmental change. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs When Bioresources Laws and Science Clash In an article published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, scientists say India's "draconian" rules on free exchange of biological samples could "totally isolate Indian biodiversity researchers and is akin to a self-imposed siege on scientists in the country". India's biodiversity rules, established in 2002, do not permit Indian scientists to deposit their specimens in international museums and stipulate that specimens must be kept in selected national repositories. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Recovering From a Mass Extinction The full recovery of ecological systems, following the most devastating extinction event of all time, took at least 30 million years, according to new research. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Species Watch Nepal to Breed Vultures in Captivity to Save Species Speed Alone Can't Save the Cheetah Inuits Reject US Environmentalists' Bid to Protect Polar Bear 4 New Gecko Species Discovered in Mekong Delta Toxics Found in Dead Tasmanian Devils Refugees Turn to Endangered Species for Meat Low Survival Rate for Released Carnivores 1,200 Smuggled Parrots Rescued, Headed for Bahrain, Mexico Russia Tries to Save Sturgeon With Caviar Monopoly White Marlin Neither Threatened Nor Endangered Business
Corporations and Finance UN Approves Climate Change Adaptation Fund Funding will come from a two per cent levy on revenues generated by the clean development mechanism. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs U.S. to Launch Clean Technology Fund in 2008 The United States will press forward with a multibillion-dollar "clean technology fund" this year to help China and other developing countries finance advanced technologies to cut greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Project to Assess World Business CO2 Footprint The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a consortium of 315 top institutional investors assessing industries about their CO2 emissions, announced Sunday a new partnership to extend its global initiative to companies and suppliers. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Monsanto and Syngenta Withdraw From Summit An international assessment of agriculture was to strategize a global plan. Now the summit is in limbo. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Climate 2007 Temperature Results Are In, More or Less There is some disagreement as to how warm 2007 actually was, but no disagreement that it is was one of the warmest years ever. Here we link up the NOAA, GISS, and Earthpolicy reports. >Stories: A, B, C >Post Comments >Related Blogs Geological Carbon Study Supports Sequestration Earth scientists have found that carbon dioxide has been naturally stored for more than a million years in several gas fields in the Colorado Plateau and Rocky Mountains of the United States. This finding lends credence to the principle that CO2 can be stored underground for very long periods of time. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Microbes as Climate Engineers We might think we can control the climate but unless we harness the powers of our microbial co-habitants on this planet we might be fighting a losing battle, according to an article in the February 2008 issue of Microbiology Today. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Agricultural Soil Erosion Not Contributing To Global Warming, Study Says A team of researchers finds that soil erosion losses represent the equivalent of around 1.5% of annual fossil fuel emissions. This finding challenges previous assessments that erosion represents an additional source of carbon to the atmosphere equivalent to adding 13% to annual fossil fuel emissions. The finding also challenges the opposite notion that erosion is currently offsetting fossil fuel emissions by more than 10%. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Climate Research Watch US Warns EU on Using Climate Change as Pretext Think Tank Questions Stern Review on Warming Costs Japan Wants Change to 1990 Emission Baseline Conference of Big Emitters: Note Change in US Climate Stance Norway Says Aims to Go Carbon Neutral by 2030 Energy and
Transportation The Future of Clean Coal Post FutureGen The DOE's decision to abandon FutureGen should be viewed as a reaction to private sector ramping up of clean coal technologies and could accelerate the onset of clean-coal generation. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs NIST Facility for Hydrogen Pipeline Testing Efforts to create a “hydrogen economy” to reduce U.S. oil imports will get a boost from a new laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology that will evaluate tests, materials, mechanical properties and standards for hydrogen pipelines. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Synthetic Fuel Concept Steals CO2 From Thin Air At the heart of the technology is a new process for extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and making it available for fuel production using a new form of electrochemical separation. By integrating this electrochemical process with existing technology, researchers have developed a new, practical approach to producing fuels and organic chemicals that permits continued use of existing industrial and transportation infrastructure. Fuel production is driven by carbon-neutral power. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Needed: Multilateral Nuclear Enrichment The international market for enriched uranium for civil use is efficient and well served, and good models for multilateral control already exist. Multilaterally owned or operated fuel banks have been on the agenda since the detonation of the first nuclear bomb. The concept of multilateral enrichment facilities provided by existing technology owners is an idea whose time has come: we should embrace it. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Biofuels Watch Infrastructure Not Ready 2008 Ethanol Production Some Biofuels Are Worse Environmentally Than Fossil Fuels SPOTLIGHT on Biofuels: The research challenge Non-Food Biodiesel Crop to Take Root in US NW Study Favors Trees Over Corn as Biofuel Source A New Biofuel: Propane Cheaper, Cleaner Ethanol from Biotech Corn New Biofuel From Wood Chips Dimethylfuran From Fructose is Better Biofuel Biodiesel Boom Creates Glut of Glycerin: Make Antifreeze Using Biodiesel Glycerin to Make Ethanol Miscanthus Bests Switchgrass as Biofuel Source Biofuel Bandwagon Slows as Feedstock Prices Surge Tropical Maize Advantages Over Switchgrass and Miscanthus Nobelist Crutzen Says Biofuels Could Raise Warming Chicken Fat and Tall Oil into Biodiesel Net Energy of Cellulosic Ethanol From Switchgrass New Technique for Butanol Creation Forests and
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Effects of Elevated CO2 on Protein Concentration of Food Crops: Meta-Analysis While the magnitude of the effect of elevated CO2 varied depending on the experimental procedures, a reduction in protein concentration was consistently found for most crops. These findings suggest that the increasing CO2 concentrations of the 21st century are likely to decrease the protein concentration of many human plant foods. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs Natural Disturbances Make Future Contribution of Canada's Forests to Global Carbon Cycle Highly Uncertain Once considered an iron clad carbon sink, natural disturbance evidence is proving that boreal forests may not be as dependable as once thought. Future climate mitigation agreements that do not account for and protect against the impacts of natural disturbances, for example, by accounting for forest management benefits relative to baselines, will fail to encourage changes in forest management aimed at mitigating climate change. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs What Cost Ending Amazon Deforestation? With Brazil last week announcing a significant jump in Amazon deforestation during the second half of 2007, the question emerges, how much would it cost to end the destruction of Earth's largest rainforest? Woods Hole Study says 100 to 600M $US per year. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs NYC Cloning Historical Trees for Future As part of the ambitious PlaNYC, the first of 25 "historical" trees will be cloned as part of the project to add a million new, native trees to public spaces over the next decade. >Story >Post Comments >Related Blogs | |
